• Jeet Heer on Harper's pretend populism and the cultural minefield he seems to have stepped into.

• Walrus blogger Sean Rogers writes about the Chester Brown series of promo comics about Toronto culture and nails Chester's approach to humour.

• Speaking of Mr. Brown, it looks like there is a new anthology to help fill the shelves in the Metis graphic novel section alongside Louis Riel: Now there is Stories of Our People: A Metis Graphic Novel Anthology, illustrated by cartoonist Carrie Saganace.

• Photos from the You Ain't No Dancer book launch at Lucky's Comics in Vancouver.

• The contributors to the above-mentioned anthology were interviewed on Inkstuds awhile back

• A report from the Calgary con by a U.S. comics person.

• Ryan Sohmer's webcomic Least I Could Do has just been collected in book form for the 5th time. Entitled Yield to Me, the book is available through this link.

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